Saurik Speaks out About Cydia In Return To A Forum Tantrum.

If you have a jailbroken iPhone and don't know the man in the picture...you need a slap in the face! Recently he got a little online attack in the form of someone having a little tantrum about him and his programs. Here's some main points in his reply.

The man in the picture, for those who don't know, is known as the 'Godfather of Jailbreaking'. *Applause for Saurik (Jay Freeman)* The creator of Cydia. The creator of your well known theme program 'Winterboard'. You all know it and you've all used it. So why would someone 'have a go' at Saurik, when he's done nothing but excellence.

A guy called SnowLeo over at the modmyi forums went haywire and made a post ranting about Dreamboard and Cydia and the like. Here's how (some of it) went down:

SnowLeo: "The same reason he doesnt allow competiting stores like themeit to be in the default repos, because he wants 30% of every single dollar spent on everything jailbreak"

Saurik: "100% - 70% (developer) - 7.5% (PayPal) - 7.5% (EU VAT) is nowhere near 30%. Cydia also bears a greater cost than I thought it would for outgoing payments (as almost every developer makes no money, so the PayPal fees end up being really expensive every two weeks to send "almost no money" to thousands of people), and if you subtract bandwidth and servers and the two employees SaurikIT does have, you are left with quite little; what is left is spent back on the community, including bandwidth for non-Cydia things such as jailbreaks/TinyUmbrella, sponsorships of open conferences, etc. That TSS/SHSH server I run that people love so much alone costs many thousands of dollars a month."

SnowLeo: "I believe the fact that there are other sources for dreamboard themes like the theme outlet and just the sheer fact that saurik is anticompetitive and doesnt want to promote themes built solely or mostly on a platform that isnt his own is the reason."

Saurik: "As far as I can tell, you are claiming that I am evil in this section because I'm not promoting DreamBoard themes. I do not promote DreamBoard themes because DreamBoard is a project that the developer gave up on, which means that it is barely maintained and has lots of bugs (some of which involve users getting stuck in themes they can't turn off): I actually was quite prepared and happy to add a section in the Theme Center for it, and even had suggested it to the DreamBoard developer, but by the time that became relevant the product mostly died."

That's just some of the content of the posts. To fully understand what it's about you have to readit for yourself. You can find that right here. It's a pretty intense argument that Saurik makes for developers and the like.

Ever wondered where Cydia got it's name and what it actually means. Bet you didn't even know it was cleverly picked by Saurik? Our man lcf13 over at the forums showed me this

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